where were you that day
when it all went away — the
world that we once knew.
day of infamy,
thousands lost — landscape of our
world forever changed.
I have that morning burned into my memory. I was a senior in a private high school & we were in chapel. One of my teachers came in to tell us what happened. We had his class next hour & sat there listening to the towers collapse on the radio. #neverforget ♥️🤍💙
#haikuhive #poetry #911 #haikuaday
pickThis book was a wonderful story about how the town of Gander, Newfoundland stepped up to receive thousands of detoured passengers after the US skies were forced to close after the events of 9/11. These residents stopped what they were doing and assisted everyone with food, lodging, clothes, & whatever else they needed to make sure they were all cared for & cared about. It really showed how good people could be to one another.
Life is a comedy of disorientation about people who believe in, commit to, and act on the erroneous.
A mondegreen is a misinterpretation the ear makes of a spoken (or sung) line. The term is derived from part of a folk ballad-- “They have slain the Earl of Moray/ And laid him on the green“-- which was misheard by Sylvia Wright (who coined the term) as “They have slain the Earl of Moray and Lady Mondegreen.“
I'd learned that the best response to a world conspiring against you is not to isolate yourself but to throw yourself more wholeheartedly into it.
